The Resurgence of Medical Ethics During the Coronavirus Disease (COVID)-19 Outbreak

Río, Rafael del; Ojeda, Joaquín de; Soriano, Vincent

doi:10.24875/aidsrev.m20000034

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“…During the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of the work carried out by health professionals—and the attendant implications for public health—has become evident. This has probably led to an improvement in the doctor-patient relationship and an increase in confidence in clinicians [ 31 ]. Thus, now more than ever, there is a great opportunity to change certain beliefs that are held by women and to improve their knowledge of MHT.…”

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Beliefs, knowledge and the impact of COVID19 on menopause therapies in Spanish women: COMEM-treatment study

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Objective To study what women think about menopause treatments and assess their knowledge about them. To analyze adherence to treatment during COVID-19 confinement as a secondary objective. Methods A multi-center cross-sectional observational study was conducted using a survey of 2500 women between January and June 2019. This was administered following a non-probability sampling procedure including women between 35 and 75 years. An extension study was conducted during the coronavirus pandemic, between March and June 2020. Results The responses of 2355 surveyed women were analyzed. Of this sample, 42% knew about menopause hormone therapy (MHT). The most frequently identified indication was the treatment of hot flashes (65.6%). The MHT risks most frequently perceived were weight gain (24.2%) and breast cancer (21.7%); the main reason for rejecting MHT was a lack of information (96.1%). Comparative analyses were conducted according to age, menopausal status, type of menopause, place of residence, type of health care and level of education. During the coronavirus confinement period, 85 women using MHT were located, of which 84.7% continued it. Conclusions Women hold certain false beliefs about menopause, and their knowledge of the available treatments is somewhat limited. Adherence to MHT during the COVID-19 confinement in Spain has been high.

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Beliefs, knowledge and the impact of COVID19 on menopause therapies in Spanish women: COMEM-treatment study

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“…This rapid adaptation has favoured new health technologies, which have become an essential element in the daily life of society. The pandemic has also led healthcare professionals to become aware of the critical role of spiritual support needs [ 22 , 23 ]. During the hardest times of the pandemic, there were creative efforts by healthcare chaplaincy services, among others, to help patients in distress and in isolation [ 22 , 24 ].…”

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Digital Competencies for Nurses: Tools for Responding to Spiritual Care Needs

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Users show a growing interest in expanding the implementation of digital tools as a support of technical and management issues in healthcare,. This medical care has focused on telemedicine but does not include the recognition of needs as an important part of patient-centred healthcare. Nurses interact with patients at critical times in their life journeys, including birth and death, which are historical events linked with religious beliefs. Furthermore, large migration flows have led to multicultural societies in which religion and spirituality are experienced in distinct ways by different people. Finally, most healthcare professionals lack the proper skills to handle the spiritual needs of their patients, especially for core and digital competences. This article shows the results of qualitative research applying as a research tool an open-ended questionnaire, which allows detecting the educational needs for nurses’ interventions aimed at providing spiritual support to their patients using digital tools. The results obtained reveal that nurses need education and training on fundamental spiritual concepts and digital competencies to meet the multiple demands of their patients’ spiritual needs. Finally, we present an open digital educational proposal for the development of competencies for nurses and other health professionals to provide spiritual care with the support of digital tools.

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Medical students’ attitudes toward sleeping pill usage: A cross-sectional study

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Medical students experience significant stress, which may interfere with their sleeping routines; consequently, they are at a higher risk of misusing sleeping pills. Therefore, this cross-sectional convenience sampling study aims to evaluate medical students’ attitudes toward the usage of sleeping pills, as well as the prevalence of their misuse and the associated factors. A self-administered online questionnaire survey was completed by 338 medical students at the College of Medicine of the King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. Of 338 participants, 84 (24.85%) reported using sleeping pills. The prevalence of sleeping pill misuse was 26.63% (n = 90). The most common misuse behavior of sleeping pills was self-prescription (n = 72, 21.30%). The factors associated with sleeping pill misuse were stimulants usage (n = 69, 92%, p = 0.0072), high grade point average (n = 63, 84%, p = 0.046), preclinical years (n = 52, 69.3%, p = 0.042), and longer average time required to fall asleep (n = 53, 70.7%, p = 0.008). The prevalence of sleeping pill misuse is high among medical students, particularly among those in preclinical years. Therefore, enhancing awareness regarding sleeping pill misuse is crucial. This can be achieved through campaigns, workshops, and providing information regarding the dangers of sleeping pill misuse in the curriculum.

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The Resurgence of Medical Ethics During the Coronavirus Disease (COVID)-19 Outbreak

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Beliefs, knowledge and the impact of COVID19 on menopause therapies in Spanish women: COMEM-treatment study

Beliefs, knowledge and the impact of COVID19 on menopause therapies in Spanish women: COMEM-treatment study

Digital Competencies for Nurses: Tools for Responding to Spiritual Care Needs

Medical students’ attitudes toward sleeping pill usage: A cross-sectional study

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